Mavic Battery life leaderboard

[Dan'sUavTech]

Post your longest flights here! Personally, mine so far has been 30 mins with a Mini 3.
Enjoy!

 

[Cafguy]

Not sure what your looking for BUT I had A Air2S Battery that was going at 260 cycles with almost 20 min of flight time! never happened again and I should have saved it in a Frame! Usually high cycle bats gave me 8 min.

 

[GadgetGuy]

Post your longest flights here! Personally, mine so far has been 30 mins with a Mini 3.
Enjoy!

With the VLOS requirement, it is no longer really as relevant as it was, when we used to have a long distance leaderboards with stock and modded setups for each aircraft, where maximizing flight time with external batteries would maximize total distance base upon an optimal speed, and round trip flights were prioritized over one-way suicide missions.

 

[Dan'sUavTech]

With the VLOS requirement, it is no longer really as relevant as it was, when we used to have a long distance leaderboards with stock and modded setups for each aircraft, where maximizing flight time would maximize total distance, and round trip flights were prioritized over one-way suicide missions.

Ok. So battery life is no longer relevant?

 

[moldorf]

Ok. So battery life is no longer relevant?

"longest flight" and battery life can be two different things

 

[GadgetGuy]

Ok. So battery life is no longer relevant?

"No longer as relevant…."

 

[GadgetGuy]

"longest flight" and battery life can be two different things

Indeed they are, which is why DJI quotes different parameter requirements for maximum flight time and separately for maximum distance. This is why maximum flight time can be easily manipulated based upon DJI's parameters for maximum flight time, but is actually irrelevant if your goal is maximum distance, as they are quite different. Counterintuitively, maximizing flight time actually decreases maximum distance.

 

[Dan'sUavTech]

maximizing flight time actually decreases maximum distance.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

 

[PINEBARON]

If I see at least 10% remaining battery life following a risky/longer flight, I'm happy I survived and landed safely, however, lately I've being aiming for 20% remaining due to colder winter temperatures and higher wind speeds.

 

[Droning on and on...]

Counterintuitively, maximizing flight time actually decreases maximum distance.

Depends on one's intuition I suppose.

It's very intuitive to me. Seems obvious that moving will consume more power than hovering, and therefore the battery is going to deplete more quickly.

That's my "intuition".

 

[BossBob]

Hovering is more battery depleting than moving forward (to a certain extent) as a stationary drone ends up sitting in a downward moving column of air requiring more power to maintain its altitude. If the drone moves forward steadily it will move onto a stable cushion of air for it to push down on requiring less power for more lift. There will be a crossover point at which the power advantage of moving forward for better lift is cancelled out by the extra power needed to move forward faster.
We don’t see these effects in flight with our stabilized drones because the flight control dampens them all out.

 

[Exphantomflyer]

30 minutes with a Mini 4 battery achieved with cruise control at 14mph on a calm day
50 minutes with a Vincent mega battery on a Mavic Pro. OK so that one is cheating a bit lol but its a mavic battery

 

[Dan'sUavTech]

Hovering is more battery depleting than moving forward (to a certain extent) as a stationary drone ends up sitting in a downward moving column of air requiring more power to maintain its altitude. If the drone moves forward steadily it will move onto a stable cushion of air for it to push down on requiring less power for more lift. There will be a crossover point at which the power advantage of moving forward for better lift is cancelled out by the extra power needed to move forward faster.
We don’t see these effects in flight with our stabilized drones because the flight control dampens them all out.

I find that hovering consistently uses more battery than flying at speed. This has been true for not just DJI drones, but practically all others I have flown, too.